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"Is it because of the girl hiding up at your bungalow, Kedsty?" Even in that moment, when he had the desire to strike the man before him, it was impossible for him not to admire the stone-like invulnerability of Kedsty. He had never heard of another man calling Kedsty a scoundrel or dishonest. And yet, except that his faced burned more dully red, the Inspector was as impassively calm as ever.
The voice is repeating over and over again the words "Lawson is a good young man," and they are re-echoed until Hubert Tracy raises his head and glances around as if to convince himself of the reality. "A good young man," he murmurs bitterly; "I was one myself in the past." A bitter groan escaped the lips of the speaker as he uttered the sentence, and his face became stone-like in expression.
The stone-like mask dissolved into something that was pathetically human. "Miss Norman," he said, "I don't know what we are heading into, but if we ever get clear I will make any reparation you may demand." "Any kind of a reparation?" an eager note in her voice. Dennison stared at her, puzzled, but almost instantly he was conscious of the warmth of shame in his cheeks.
"Is it because of the girl hiding up at your bungalow, Kedsty?" Even in that moment, when he had the desire to strike the man before him, it was impossible for him not to admire the stone-like invulnerability of Kedsty. He had never heard of another man calling Kedsty a scoundrel or dishonest. And yet, except that his faced burned more dully red, the Inspector was as impassively calm as ever.
You'll never tell never? You swear that?" "Me tell! No, no. To think! Then theer's real sorrow for you, tu, poor soul real, grawin' sorrow tu. Differ'nt from mine, but real enough. Yet " She relapsed into a stone-like repose. No facial muscle moved, but the expression of her mind appeared in her eyes and there gradually grew a hungry look in them as of a starving thing confronted with food.
A hard stone-like gleam came into Stuart's eyes, but even his mounting rage did not blind him to the fact that the negro was twice his size and three times as muscular. Nor did he forget that Hippolyte was in the hut, and, in any case of trouble, the two blacks would combine against him.
Headly, I say, proceeds his foregoing lines with the following: "How such things weaken one's faith in man, and make him scorn his own nature, that is capable of such stone-like indifference to human suffering! These italians, as a mass, I do not like.
The stone-like apathy manifested at the trial of the above cause, and the screams and the death-groans of an innocent man, as developed by the testimony of the witnesses, can never be obliterated from my memory. They form an era in my life, a point to which I look back with horror. "Another case of cruelty occurred on the San Bernard near Chance Prairie, where I resided for some time.
"Why, he informed her one day when he was goin' take his dust to town, that if he come back and found that thing in the house, he'd do it up for her. 'So yu' better pack off your wooden dummy somewheres, says he. And she just looked at him kind o' stone-like and solemn. For she don't care for his words no more.
It is found that a quicker succession a shorter interval is necessary with strong light than with weaker light in order to produce continuity. No doubt the unprejudiced reader supposes when he reads this passage that there is some stone or stone-like body in the head of the toad which has a special beauty, or else was believed to possess magical or medicinal properties.
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